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Viridivia J.H.Hemsl. & Verdc.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Passifloraceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, yellow to red-brown hairy, without tendrils. Leaves alternate, pseudopinnate, deciduous; stipules minute, caducous. Inflorescences 1–2-flowered, axillary to deciduous leaves at the base of lateral branches, or arranged in terminal panicles up to 10 cm. across, reddish-brown hairy. Bracts small, acute, carinate, caducous. Flowers hermaphrodite, pedicellate. Hypanthium rather narrow, flatfish. Sepals 4, imbricate, unequal, ± persistent, 3–7-nerved. Petals 4, smaller than the sepals, 1-nerved. Corona extrastaminal, shortly tubiform, irregularly split, hairy towards the top, and provided with small club-shaped glands. Stamens 10–16; filaments pilose, inserted on an androgynophore ± 2 mm. long; anthers oblong, subdorsifixed. Gynophore ± 4.5 mm.; ovary globose, placentas 4–5, many-ovuled; styles terminal, 4(–6), free, pilose; stigmas capitate-reniform. Fruit a subglobose stipitate 4–5-valved capsule. Seeds ovoid, compressed, ± 9 mm., arillate; funicle robust; testa crustaceous, scrobiculate; embryo large, cotyledons leafy; endosperm not copious.
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Flowers hermaphrodite, usually developing before leaves, in dense racemes at the end of short branches; bracts small, carinate, acute, soon caducous.
Ovary globose, stipitate, 1-locular; styles 4–6 with fleshy ± kidney-shaped stigmas; ovules ± 50, anatropous, inserted in 2 rows on 4–5 placentas.
Corona shortly tubular, irregularly fimbriate and with clavate whitish glands.
Stamens 10–16, with filaments free and hairy; anthers oblong.
Seeds ovoid, compressed, included in a cupulate aril.
Sepals 4, imbricate, sericeous outside, 3–7-nerved.
Petals 4, smaller than the sepals, 1-nerved.
Capsule subglobose, stipitate.
Small tree without tendrils.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31824-1
WFO ID wfo-4000040335
COL ID 86Y4
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Synonyms

Viridivia

Lower taxons

Viridivia suberosa
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